Quotes About European Imperialism

#1. Colonialism in Africa was inevitable since the fittest and most creative person was the one that would be destined to lead.

S.A. David

#2. Without a goal, you can't score.

Casey Neistat

#3. According to Okonkwo, the British via its indirect rule system ensured that Africans saw their native leaders as the demons who betrayed their people. He called it a demonocracy and that was the first time I had seen him become so passionate about issues that affect Africa as a people and continent.

S.A. David

#4. In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.

Fredric Jameson

#5. They were lined with the pelts of cast-off teddy bears. There was no vanity in winter.

Ann Patchett

#6. Some people are fond of horses, others of wild animals; in my case, I have been possessed since childhood by a prodigious desire to buy and own books.

Julian The Apostate

#7. Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer.

Srikumar Rao

#8. Most American and European scholars believe that the Chinese speak their languages, only that they "talk" in Chinese.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#9. The whole idea is to earn the flavor. No one gives it to you.

Jamie Oliver

#10. The wisdom of the East is immortalized in its vocabularies and must be liberated from European language imperialism once and for all.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#11. For years now, the fake European 'left' is trying to portray European citizens as victims of the US imperialism. It is even trying to make the world feel sorry for those European workers who do not get a fair deal from their governments! It is thoroughly absurd.

Andre Vltchek

#12. My body has never been to Europe. My mind has never left it.

Brian Spellman

#13. The summons to wakefulness is therefore a summons to attend to my agency.

Oliver O'Donovan

#14. I told her, "Hang tight, baby, it's a crazy world." And that, as they say, was that.

Charles Bukowski

#15. The 1890s was an intensely patriotic decade for Americans. It was a time of neo-imperialism, when the European powers and the United States were establishing their flags around the globe.

Robert Dallek